SME – Written by: Muhammad Al-Joker
Al-Ahly of Egypt, our Arab representative, lost by two goals to Brazilian Fluminense in the Club World Cup competitions in the city of Jeddah, which is hosting this exceptional event for the first time, after the Arab Gulf countries became an essential stop on the agenda of the International Federation of Association Football, hosting the tournament several times, especially in the Emirates, the homeland of goodness. Dar Zayed” more than 5 times, and the state succeeded in organizing it, and the tournaments organized by the Emirates became an honorable model in the cities of Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, and received praise from “FIFA”. Returning to the match between Al-Ahly of Egypt and the Brazilian team the day before yesterday, there is a story of a forgotten match in the year 1961, as It was the first meeting between Al-Ahly and the Brazilian Fluminense in Cairo, and that day the Beast of Africa and the Club of the Century lost by two goals. Because I love history and documentation, I found a picture. I stopped and asked about it, and I got to know it from some dear colleagues. It revealed to me the presence of 6 members of the Al-Ahly club’s golden team. They have good relations with us and beautiful memories. forget, and among those found in the old photograph as published by the sites are Adel Heikal, the famous goalkeeper, who worked as director of Al-Jazira Club, Izzat Abu Al-Rous, director of Sharjah Club in the 1980s, and Sheikh Taha Ismail, who trained Al-Nasr youth players with Amr Abu Al-Majd in the same period and then coached Al-Ahly in the year 89, and Mimi El-Sherbiny, the shining name in the sky of Emirati football, who coached Al-Nasr, the military teams, and the schools, and led Al-Nasr to victory over his Al-Ahly team in 1975, and Mahmoud Al-Gohary, who coached the Al-Wahda Al-Sharjah clubs, and Maestro Saleh Selim, who has a good relationship with the leaders of the sports movement in The Emirates, specifically Al-Nasr and Al-Ahly, and he visited them and has extensive relations. He even played against Al-Ahly Dubai in their training camp in Cairo in the year 1970 and exchanged commemorative flags with Suhail Salem… and God is behind the intention.
Mohamed the Joker
Here, commemorative flags are exchanged by Saleh Selim, the Al-Ahly player from Cairo, who later assumed the presidency of the board of directors, with Sohail Salem, the Al-Wahda club player before the merger between Al-Wahda and Al-Shabab in September 1970, during his training camp in Cairo. Sohail is considered the scorer of the first goal for our national football team in a tournament. The Second Gulf in Riyadh in 1972
